Denigration of a victim in individual psychotherapy by violent vs seductive child molesters.
20 child molesters, 10 classified as violent and 10 as seductive, were studied in individual psychotherapy, with their therapists responding to a checklist indicating clients' use of victim-denigrating statements. The violent child molesters were significantly more likely to make statements denigrating their victims than were the child molesters classified as seductive. The results expand the 1993 findings of Eisenman who observed this phenomenon with sex offenders during group psychotherapy. Theoretical and treatment implications are discussed.
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D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual; D002675:Child, Preschool; D019548:Crime Victims; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011613:Psychotherapy; D014754:Violence